genocide convention

常見例句

The trouble with calling genocide "genocide" while the blood is still spilling is that, under the terms of a UN convention, one is obliged to do something to stop it.
麻煩在於，儅屠刀下的鮮血還在橫流的時(shí)候稱這一事件爲(wèi)“種族屠殺”，那麼按照聯(lián)郃國(guó)有關(guān)條款的慣例，就得有人站出來阻止悲劇的繼續(xù)發(fā)生。

"The definition of genocide that is most often used is the official U.N.definition in the Genocide Convention of the late 1940s.
"There is the initial definition by the United Nations when they adopted the genocide convention, which is considered generally authoritative.
A majority of scholars and historians agree that the massacre of an estimated one million Armenians during World War I constitutes genocide as defined by the 1948 United Nations Convention on Genocide.

And the Genocide Convention, quite frankly, has yet to demonstrate any utility of any kind in discouraging genocide or in helping to deal with it once it occurs.
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